Re: Una Lectura en Ladino para la Clase

At 1:05 pm -0500 3/2/99, Padraic Brown wrote:
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>But of course!  The only problem here is that (shame on me!) I don't have
>a Ladino dictionary to look it up in.
Nor have I.  I suppose Ladino dictionaries do exist, but I suspect they're
not easy to come by.

>So, I can only turn to the next
>best thing, in this case, modern Spanish.  Even if it's not entirely
>accurate.
Merely suggesting that modern Spanish dictionary can only be an
_approximate_ guide - nothing less, nothing more - and trying to make a
_helpful_ suggestion.

After all, a modern English dictionary would not be entirely helpful for a
language derived from, say, the late Middle English of Chaucer.
Fortunately, Spanish has changed rather less than English over the same
period so we can find the modern Spanish dictionary a little more useful.
But I certainly wouldn't expect to find all Ladino words in such a
dictionary any more than I'd exppect to find all Yiddish words in a modern
German dictionary.

But I see nothing to be ashamed of in not possessing either a Ladino or
Yiddish dictionary myself.

Ray.